August 21, 2024
Adapt to autism
Awareness and a few simple changes can allow hospitalists to improve care for inpatients with the common neurodevelopmental condition.
Spurious hyperphosphatemia in a multiple myeloma patient
A patient with multiple myeloma had lethargy, disorientation, and several abnormal labs.
Bloodstream infection, hemodialysis associated with worse outcomes in C. auris
Patients with Candida auris bloodstream infections who had higher Pitt bacteremia scores at infection onset or who were receiving hemodialysis were more likely to die, a retrospective cohort study in California and Florida found.
Rapid uptitration of GDMT safe in hospitalized HF patients with afib, analysis finds
Hospitalized patients who were randomized to rapid uptitration of guideline-directed medical therapies (GDMT) for heart failure (HF) had lower rates of all-cause death or HF readmission than those who got usual care, whether or not they also had atrial fibrillation or flutter.
Women less likely than men to receive opioids while hospitalized
Hospitalized female patients were less likely to receive opioids for their pain, and when they did, they received 27.46 fewer morphine milligram equivalents per day on average than males, a study at an academic teaching hospital in California found.
EEG, fMRI newly identified responses in patients with disorders of consciousness
Of 241 studied patients with disorders of consciousness and no observable response to commands at the bedside, a response was seen on functional MRI (fMRI) and/or electroencephalography (EEG) in 25%.
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